The Canadian Jewish National Fund’s 1943 campaign to raise $125,000 to purchase 5,000 dunams of land in Palestine on which demobilized soldiers will be settled after the war was launched here at the second annual dinner of the JNF Council.
Rev. J.K. Goldbloom, executive director of the Canadian JNF, told the gathering that in 1942 Canadian Jewry raised over $100,000 for the Ussishkin Fund of the JNF, far surpassing all previous collections for Palestine land purchase. The previous high had been $29,000 raised in 1940. Rev. Goldbloom revealed that thirty-three percent of these funds were raised by the Hadassah, which made the greatest contribution of any single organization. He paid tribute to the Jewish community of Canada and its support of Zionist activities.
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